geom 'taste' vs. manual creation ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20090113122111.GA89189 at onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>geom(4) says:
>
>   A geom which came into being as a result of a normal taste operation
>   should self-destruct...
>
>Now I wonder:
>does the GEOM infrastructure record whether a geom has been created
>by a 'taste' call, or manually through a 'geom xxx create ..', or
>this info should be managed directly by the individual implementation ?

No, there is no difference on how a geom is created.  The above
statement indicates a level of magic that is not really there, all
the geoms get orphaned the same way.

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